Where? Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, USA When? 19-20 May 2018
The “Air Power over Hampton Roads” airshow at the Joint Base Langley-Eustis was held on 19-20 May, 2018. It is one of the rare chances ...

... some fine photo opportunities and the static display was also rather nice collection of JGSDF, JMSDF and JASDF aircraft with an F-15J, C-130 Hercules, P-3C Orion and especially the rare visit of a KC-76 ...

... which was the early end of the air show season for the charismatic jet. Noticeably less spectacular to see but a very rarely presented outside its home airfield Yeovilton was the Chipmunk of the RNHF. ...

... also the meeting of three rare P-63 Kingcobras and one P-39 Airacobra. It was the first such rather large meeting of three types of “Bell’s finest” for the first time after WW II. More photos of this come-together ...

... several of the rare and unique warbirds from the World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War.” Along the flightline there was the chance to get up close and personal with numerous P-40 Warhawks, a P-39 Airacobra ...

Where? Sliac, Slovakia When?27-28/08/2016
The SU-27 Flanker, MiG-21 LanceR and MiG-29 Fulcrum are apart from being three Cold War warriors and rare Russian-build jets three excellent airshow acts that ...

... hich is one the very rare possibilities to see a German Tornado display. With low and fast fly-bys the crew presented their jets in its natural environment. What a contrast to ‚turn&burn‘ of the Eurofighter! ...

... into the civil register as HB-MKP until the move to Germany.
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The Bücker Jungmeister and Jungmann are obviously very popular amongst their pilots. Very rarely they change their o ...

... 16 Blackhawk helicopter. The Slovak AF put a special coloured MiG-29UBS in the dispersal area, and the ‘glas nose’ Let L-410FG for photogrammetry was a nother aircraft rarely seen around airshows. Aero ...

... AF (the same reason why the LanceR cancelled – talk about changing two F-15s on the ground against one MiG-21 in the air…). A rare appearance was also the Tiger helicopter of the German Army, which look ...

... nd being well kept in good condition.
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Though not as big as past events, this “Tag der Bundeswehr” attracted 60.000 visitors and proved to be a great day out, with the rare, and ...

... mountainous landscape. This air show offers one of the rare opportunities to see a large number of WWI aircraft, some of which form part of TVAL (The Vintage Aviator Ltd.) collection.
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Unfortunately the MiG-29 Fulcrums did not move at all during my stay, and I thus had to settle for photographing the F-7. But seeing those r ...

... tivity of Russian Air Force and Navy aircraft noticeable increased in the recent years and it is thus not rare to see F-15J Eagles armed with live AAM-3 missiles going on an intercept mission.
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... audience, always using a lot of much smoke and fireworks.
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Further highlights were however quite rare, because contrary to the announcements on the ...

... s.
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The WW I displays were also outstanding. Whereas the Triplane was missing after a crash landing earlier that year, the very rare Bristol M1C was in the ...

... gets quite rare these days in Japan. JGSDF helicopters present were a UH-1 and OH-1, and from Kanoya the JMSDF provided a P-3C (or P-3CJ as it was applied on the sign) Orion.
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... to be a regular theme of the event.
A special visitor for example was the Turkish Navy Casa C-295 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA), which seems to be a very rare sight nearly everywhere… It came as an ...

... they are becoming a rare breed in Switzerland with their days being counted more or less. With the "No" to the Gripen NG of the Swiss public in a recent vote it remains to be seen what the strategy ...

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Warbirds over the Beach

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Where?Virginia Beach, Virginia, USAWhen? 19-21/05/2017

„Warbirds over the Beach“ is the annual airshow of the Military Aviation Museum (MAM) at Virginia Beach with a strong focus on aircraft of the WWII era. Each year during the May weekend before Memorial Day the majority of warbirds from the 1940s era being part of the fantastic collection of the MAM are literally unleashed and take to the air from a small private airstrip just South of Virgina Beach on the US Atlantic shoreline.

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Shuttleworth Pageant Airshow

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Where?Old Warden, Biggleswade, UKWhen?07/09/2014

The Shuttleworth Collection has not been particularly lucky with the airshow weather in 2014. The main shows in August had to be cancelled, and for some other events the sun either did not want to come out or the winds were too strong for some of the aircraft to fly. However, for their Pageant Airshow in September everything went just right! And the DH.88 Comet was finally in the air again!

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NH90 Delivery Flight

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Where?Donauwörth, Eurocopter siteWhen?15/12/2006

The first three next-generation NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopters (TTH) were handed over to the German Army at Eurocopter’s Donauwörth facility in the presence of a large group of guests from the German Federal Ministry of Defence, the Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement, NAHEMA (NATO HElicopter Management Agency) as well as the German Army on December 13th, 2006.